Introduction to the CLARIN-CH ecosystem of language data infrastructure

This introductory session of the CLARIN-CH Trianing Sessions 2025 provides an overview of the CLARIN-CH ecosystem of infrastructures, highlighting their role in supporting research involving language resources and language technology. Participants gain insights into the various infrastructures available within CLARIN-CH and how they facilitate Open Research Data (ORD) practices in language research. Each of the infrastructures will be further addressed, both from a theoretical and a hands-on perspective, in dedicated sessions during March-June 2025. Topics covered in the introductory session: 1. What is CLARIN-CH? 2. The Importance of ORD and FAIR in Language Research Open Science, Open Research Data (ORD) and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data How ORD and FAIR practices enhance reproducibility, trust, collaboration and data sharing (e.g. linking your research data to your scientific paper) Hands-on: analysis of case studies 3. Overview of the CLARIN-CH ecosystem of infrastructures The LiRI Corpus Platform The swissdox@LiRI media database ZHAW Swiss-AL Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS) and the SWISSUbase repository The CLARIN-CH Documentation Platform Introduction to key ORD projects, such as UpLORD and FAIR-FI-LD, and their main outcomes: Metadata interoperability and harvesting by CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory Curation workflow by LaRS team Standard data formats CLARIN Federated Content Search technology Videoscope @ USI 4. Challenges and solutions of ORD and FAIR for Language Data Handling sensitive and complex linguistic data, including ethical and legal considerations Big volume of data Lack of training and time for appropriate data management and data curation Encouraging researchers and institutions to engage with CLARIN-CH The CLARIN-CH Training Sessions 2025: Exploring Swiss Language Resources and Tools This training series took place during the spring semester 2025 and was organized by members of the CLARIN-CH ecosystem of infrastructures with the aim to introduce and deepen participants' knowledge of the Swiss national infrastructure for language data.